ELI5, Why does handwriting vary so much, even among a set of people with the same writing tools, technique, style and script?
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Because you have to learn it and there are no strict standards for how it should look beyond being intelligible. Even that last part goes out the window a lot of the time, as I’m sure we’ve all experienced more than once. Especially these days, with nearly all writing being done on keyboards of one form or another.
Writing nicely takes effort and people need a reason to invest effort into something. If they don’t have to, and don’t want to, they won’t.
But if people do have to learn how to write a certain way, they’ll all write in that certain way. It can be taught and learned, people just don’t care to when they don’t have to.
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